The Dillon tribune., 1887-09-30
...reR FROM 4 hoN1AN'N'
,.,, Country Catches H'm-s"it
s,.n.ry-Mormon Temple
scene. on the Rio o'.nas In. .. H.
.p.ute-sfarshall's Pass
Arkansas Canyon.

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Arkansas Canyon.
.,cr or QUEBEC, Sep. 10, 1887.
r,,or Of the Dillon r*'brSr:
left Dillon I have passed through
..,,,ful country that I came to the
'';on 70 stamp what I have see" on
!. Of your valuable paper SO that
w desire it may follow me on the
A.hold;ng Salt Lake City, and the
'.,,., Of the lake, it did seem to me
.o .o,,ioo of the great "tropical world"
y taken up in a mass by a power
handle it and placed there between
and the Wasa,cn range Of noun
[.,d.r;ne it in rainbow shape on the
,,,, south and southwest, leaving
low place to the west for the sun to
bower. But for one to see the sun
lh,t low gay h. must stand at one
,be other Of the great island, which
seen in the center Of the lake.
<ou know, l have a very little boy,
=. .oon ms his ewes are sufficiently
shall show him the valley of the
I'D sea in America, Salt Lake! and
Ne not money enough to buy peice
,here,I propose to locate BY the edge
water, Il am told the lake is reced.
by Year, and claim the land inch
a. the water retreats, and by the
v bow becomes bald.headed, like his
h. shall be the owner Of a strip OF
ag and narrow, perhaps, between
! and the old home. In travelling
to:der OF the lake l imagined l
zee the long channel which once
a living sea by connecting it with
kidc ocean. But by volcanic erup.
then shaping our mountain ranges
ee them now, the long arm or chan.
,me closed by eruptive rocks and a
left with no outlet. Now there are
bring creeks and rivers to be seen
into the lake, from every direction,
itis drying by degrees. We are
the lake is diminishing from year
and | have no doubt by some
|'nean passages, through the crust
|ath and under mountains, the wat.
Instantly and surely flowing back to
|om Of the ocean that made it. One
may ask, "Why is the lake SO much
than the sea, If once upon a time it
same level;" Many reasons can
gned, We are told by good author.
all the low lands Of the State of
mia have been formed under the Pa.
'ean, so that said ocean must have
one time great deal higher and
10 the temperate zone" Of America
is now. When all Of our mountain
together with the coast of CaliEor.
RE forced upwards by volcanic erup.
he ocean receded on the decline Of
learth) to the south. For further
liars read "Lyell on Geology" TO
one who desires to visit the "zion" Of
liter Day Saints, would saw 60
mere in the month Of August, and
G!ogwlll see paradise to be gain.
Mormon Tempt. is the most ele.
u''dlng | have ever seen. The won.
tabernacle, the Bee Hive and Zion
) and in fact all the buildings in
axe City, seem 10 be looking to the
Temple" with humiliation.
MO 4 Gra"de railroad passes through
Valley, and by the edge OF U,ah
winch flows into Salt Lake, bv the
''Ve'' Those places are no less in.
's than other portions of Utah.
sS'os :. over the Wasatch range /
>. Gould see traces of leads upon the
.@ s,>' | would have given anything
: osen able to prospect there for a
,'. "''t' 0us was afraid Of getting left.
1''''as over tn Wasatch mountains,
distance Of about three hundred
y "s east we travelled at the bottom
~ ~ "S'ng SEA, or lake, plainly dis. |
's..c ,s .! s''atified sedimen,ary for.na. |
,,.s s"s'a'ed with ages and ages gone. |
b.. a 0' this lake or sea has never
!. ',0sa ,' BY volcanic eruptions, but
/, / ,s sss' VEL surface has been greatly dis.
n waters descending from noun.
l.. 'A'o' was glad to see this. 10 |
u.s., eo0k--an old record for anv |
'ssa' e For me to know that orce !
l. ~, "e'e perhaps hundreds of
,,,s = a"u That if a water. proof railroad !
II. p, passed there then it would have |
',,s. ne fishes on its path at the bo,,am
! N,,..En; were amusing thoughts.
T~ "a''s Pass demands a few re.
,,,;. w locomotives are attached to